Architect Mohd Syafrien Rasid and technician Mohamad Yusoffe Ishak, both aged 27, were arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last year as they were trying to leave the country to support IS in Syria.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court ordered Syafrien and Yusoffe to serve their jail term beginning from the date of their arrest on September 25 last year.
While pronouncing the sentence, judge Justice Kamardin Hashim took into account public interest and the mitigation by the defence that both the accused were young offenders and did not have previous criminal records.
The two were influenced by religious extremism and planned to join jihad after watching online videos of the IS movement in Syria, the court reports said.
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